A 34-year-old man fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit is on an artificial respirator for over a month. Could it be that his chance of getting off the respirator is not how much his nurses know, but rather how much they care?

A 75-year-old woman is heroically saved by a major trauma center only to be discharged and fatally struck by a car while walking home from the hospital. Could a lack of compassion from the hospital staff have been a factor in her death?

Compelling new research shows that health care is in the midst of a compassion crisis.

But the pivotal question is this:

In Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference, physician scientists Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli uncover the eye-opening data that compassion could be a wonder drug for the 21st century. Now, for the first time ever, a rigorous review of the science — coupled with captivating stories from the front lines of medicine—demonstrates that human connection in health care matters in astonishing ways. Never before has all the evidence been synthesized together in one place. You will see compelling evidence that:

Compassion has vast benefits for patients across a wide variety of conditions.
Missed opportunities for compassion can have devastating health effects.
Compassion can help reverse the cost crisis in health care.
Compassion can be an antidote for burnout among health care providers.
Forty seconds of compassion can save a life.

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18 Jan

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

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15 Jan

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King

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My daughter drew this for me - inspired by our new favorite book: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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“Hope is the active conviction that despair will never have the last word” - @CoryBooker

I’m filled with #HOPE as we turn the page on 2020.

Happy New Year everyone!

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19 Dec

Many thanks to @Freakonomics for having us on the show to talk about the science of compassion and our new book #Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference

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“What I see is that we have a compassion crisis. And there is abundant data to show that that’s true.” — @StephenTrzeciak.

This week on Freakonomics Radio, we discuss “compassionomics” in healthcare. Listen here: https://freak.ws/3muOmLD

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